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- From: daveg@syd.csa.com.au (David Gray)
- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Message-ID: <DM4LAG.88v@assip.csasyd.oz>
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- Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation Australia
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- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 01:54:15 GMT
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- >...
- >
- >>Instead of just waiting you can also run some other apps. Don't forget
- >>Windows 95 multitasks too. I found it quite adequate. Of course, I run
- >>all my internet stuff under Linux. It'll be a cold day in hell before I
- >>swap my elm, netscape/linux, ircII, etc for Exchange, Explorer and mIrc.
- >>
- >Sorry but Win 95 task switches true multitasking requires more than 1 CPU
- >and there ain't an SMP version of Schwin 95.
- >
- >I also use Linux
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- You idiot. You are confusing multi-tasking and multi-processing. (SMP is
- an acronym for Symmetric Multi-Processing.)
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- Multi-tasking is where multiple tasks are time-multiplexed onto one CPU,
- whilst multi-processing is where multiple tasks are run simultaneously on
- more than one CPU. Note that even in a multi-processing system,
- multiplexing may take place if the number of running tasks becomes greater
- than the number of available CPUs.
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- Dave.
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- ps. I don't use Linux, I use FreeBSD. So there.
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